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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 12h

58% of Americans - including half of Republicans - think the president should send armed troops only to face external threats, a sign of unease as President Donald Trump increasingly deploys National Guard troops to police American cities, a @reuters.com poll found.

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Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 1d

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

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Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

* ILLINOIS FILES LAWSUIT SEEKING TO BLOCK PRESIDENT TRUMP'S DEPLOYMENT OF NATIONAL GUARD TO CHICAGO

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 2d

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 3d

As Trump pursues a trade pact with the US’s biggest economic and strategic rival, advocates of a tougher China policy fear they’re being sidelined inside the administration as the tech industry’s influence grows

China Hawks Grow Queasy Over Trump’s Push for Deals With Beijing

President Donald Trump rewrote Washington’s rules for dealing with China in his first presidency, embracing confrontation, launching a trade war and upending decades of policy. In his second term, China hawks in Washington fear that Trump is going soft.

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The National Press Photographers Association @nppa.org · 3d

Link to full statement here: nppa.org/news/814

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5d

Lotta “A.I. bubble” talk this week — but this time, it’s coming from the folks inventing it, selling it, buying it and financing it. 👀

@cnbc.com @fortune.com @axios.com
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

Pittsburgh successfully pivoted from steel to universities and hospitals. Now Trump’s economic agenda is putting that model at risk.

Trump Is Targeting an Economic Revival Story

Pittsburgh shows how universities and hospitals can fuel renewal — and why Trump’s manufacturing push and cuts to higher education could undermine it.

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 5d

We are in the Bad Faith Era.

Shot/chaser.

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say
Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

https://gizmodo.com/cracker-barrel-outrage-was-almost-certainly-driven-by-bots-researchers-say-2000664221

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5d

“It was heartbreaking to watch. Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”

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Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Gregory Korte @gregorykorte.com · 5d

NEW: The White House still employs 45 staffers for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency despite the Tesla Inc. CEO’s departure in May — and they’re exempt from being furloughed during the government shutdown.

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White House Keeps 45 DOGE Employees Working Despite Shutdown

The White House still employs 45 staffers for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency despite the Tesla Inc. CEO’s departure in May — and they’re exempt from being furloughed during the govern...

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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 5d

If Russ Vought gets a line-item veto over any federal spending in any jurisdiction with any Democratic executive how is the federal government supposed to ever reopen? What would be the point? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Vought Suspends $2 Billion for Chicago Trains in Shutdown Gambit

White House Budget Director Russell Vought announced the withholding of more than $2 billion for transportation projects in Chicago, the latest move by the Trump administration to use the shutdown as ...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 5d

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived.

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Mario Guevara is reporting that he will be deported to El Salvador today, after spending more than 100 days in detention after he was arrested on June 14 while covering a "No Kings" protest near Atlanta, GA. The charges against him were dropped, but DHS pursued deportation anyways.

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) @kcur.org · 6d

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword

The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'

The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago, Illinois, 2025:

"They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van."

"They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other."

"I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'"

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ICE agents raid South Shore apartments; Trump says Chicago could become military training ground

ICE agents raided a South Shore apartment building overnight as the city braces for a possible military deployment.

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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 6d

Climate activists & Trump can bond over at least one pastime: yelling at the Fed. And the central bank fully deserves its D- grade on climate. But it’s not built to do the heavy lifting that others are failing to do

Gift link to my column:

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This $2 Trillion Crisis Isn’t Just the Fed’s to Solve

Climate activists might think they have nothing in common with President Donald “Climate Change Is a Con Job” Trump. But they could bond over at least one favorite pastime: howling at the Federal Rese...

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Emily Flitter @emilyflitter.bsky.social · 6d

HUGE: Big banks have spurned Donald Trump and his family for years — now Citigroup is banking the Trumps. It’s a major reversal in risk analysis, to say the least. Excellent scoop by my @bloomberg.com colleagues Todd Gillespie and Annie Massa www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump’s Wealth, Once Spurned by Banks, Finds a New Home at Citi

After years getting shunned by major banks, Donald Trump’s money has found another place to call home: Citigroup Inc.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 6d

and nearly simultaneously -

"Global pension funds and state-backed investors converged at the Milken Forum in Singapore with a sobering message: the era of easy gains in private markets is over."

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Global Investors Signal End of Old Private Market Playbook (2)

Global pension funds and state-backed investors converged at the Milken Forum in Singapore with a sobering message: the era of easy gains in private markets is over.

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Ann Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 6d

does no one see the irony in this sentence?

"The London Stock Exchange has partnered with Crowdcube Ltd. to open up late-stage private companies to thousands of eligible retail investors ...as businesses that prefer to remain private for longer seek a wider capital pool for growth."

LSE Opens Up New Private Stock Market to Retail Investors

The London Stock Exchange has partnered with Crowdcube Ltd. to open up late-stage private companies to thousands of eligible retail investors on its PISCES exchange, as businesses that prefer to remai...

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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 7d

UPDATE:

At the Small Business Administration, employees were given "suggested" language for OOO email replies: blaming Senate Democrats for the shutdown and praising the "record-breaking services we are providing under the leadership of the Trump administration":

www.npr.org/2025/09/30/n...

Trump administration uses taxpayer dollars to blame Democrats for government shutdown

Federal employees across the government reported seeing similar messages. Experts say the messages may violate ethics laws meant to keep partisan politics out of day-to-day governing.

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